Research

As part of the research focus "LeLeW - Learning and Teaching through Competitions", the case study Marktanger SEHall is being implemented on behalf of the municipality of Hall in Tyrol. Development and design potentials are to be worked out for an area in the historic and listed surroundings of the municipality of Hall in Tyrol that has become vacant following the demolition of a building, within the framework of a student competition. The research will look for discussion bases for the decision-making process in the city administration for the future-oriented, climate-friendly and sustainable development of a new, reclaimed, inner-city open space. The research questions relate to: - Opportunities, possibilities of real-life settings in the field of Third Mission. - Learning success and motivation of the participants, - Impact on project operators and the public, - Added value of real-life settings for landscape architectural design tasks in design teaching, - Challenges and optimisation approaches in teaching and research

The Archive of Austrian Landscape Architecture LArchiv secures Austria's landscape architectural heritage for the future. In line with this mission, comprehensive new and further developments in the field of digitization are planned. As a university archive, the Archiv Österreichischer Landschaftsarchitektur LArchiv preserves, in addition to thousands of photographs, around 12,000 plans, sketches and diagrams that document the design of our built environment of the 20th and early 21st centuries. This collection represents a unique, cultural heritage. The archive appeals to science, teaching, municipalities and citizens and is the basis for a wide range of collaborations, although it can currently only be used in analog form. The planned project will facilitate access to sources through the use of digital technologies in the context of the Digital Humanities and open up the Internet as an integral research and presentation space in landscape architecture. To this end, hardware and software for the creation of high-quality digital reproductions will be acquired and, in a first step, 1,530 plans will be digitized. In addition to the photographic imaging and cataloging of objects, a publicly accessible online collection will be created. A central goal of the project is the creation and ongoing curation of an online platform and thus a presentation and mediation of the digital inventory for research, teaching and the public. The transferability of the data to the online platform on Austria's cultural heritage and to Europeana will be ensured.

As part of the research focus "LeLeW - Learning and Teaching through Competitions", the case study LAB_SE is being implemented on behalf of Lunz am See. Within the framework of a student competition, resilient, climate-friendly and sustainable solutions are to be developed for a central property as a basis for discussion in the decision-making process in the community. The research questions relate to: - Learning success and motivation of the participants, - impact on project operators and the public, - Added value of these real-life settings for landscape architectural design tasks in design teaching, - Challenges and optimisation approaches in teaching and research.